“...despite the fact that you can listen to Queen for free at home anytime you like...”

Films released prior to June 1934 were not required to comply with the “Motion Picture Production Code” that would censor films from then until 1967.

Vandalism is a grossly overkill response to boorish behavior.

Amazon now has so much money that they don’t care about a few billion dollars — they just want obedience.

They’re all manufactured holidays. But couples “falling” for this holiday are the least of our problems. Children celebrate it.

How do couples fall for this manufactured holiday? I forgot it was V-day until my wife said Happy V-day about an hour ago, Said it back that was the extent of our celebrating it. We treat each other like most couples do on 1 day of the year everyday!

On top of it, if you are actually celebrating Valentine’s Day (not the worst of the Hallmark holidays, but potentially the most likely to irritate everyone who isn’t twenty-two and in a new relationship), there’s nothing less romantic than going out in public, getting dressed up, and having a conversation in a room in…

I’m pretty sure with my level of musicianship I would be reduced to mostly Green Day songs, but I think that would get the job done.

Well put. My teen daughter is struggling with depression right now; it breaks my heart to see all the young people in the waiting room at her doctor’s office (who treats only ages 2-26). THIS is the world they’re inheriting from us. But to your point about Bieber, it’s beyond the pale to see kids doing the work of…

all awards shows are stupid

I wouldn't even pin it down to Styrofoam products exclusively - humanity (or maybe first-world?) has some weird obsession with disposability and single-use products. Outside of the medical industry, there's so few excuses for disposable products and convenience is not one of them. It's like somehow being able to throw…

My pet peeve is styrofoam cups, plates, etc. They last forever and are used exactly once. Styrofoam is evil.

Trying to remember my shows this year:

Gonna go with Weird Al’s ridiculously vain tour or whatever the hell he called it. That was really fun. And it’s good to get a reminder that he and that band don’t need the costume changes or flashy videos to be entertaining, all they have to do is be good musicians.

No other votes for Weird Al’s stripped down tour? I saw him twice and was blown away both times. 

#1- King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (Milwaukee and Chicago)

I went to college in the early 90s and had been a fan of Kate Bush since that time. My best friend from college and I always had an agreement that if Kate Bush ever played live again, we would fly anywhere in the world to see it. Well, guess what happened in 2014, after 35 years of not playing live: Kate Bush…

In 2004, I went to a concert at the Knitting Factory in NY for the Wrens, one off my favorite bands. Two things to known about the Wrens: 1) they’ve been struggling for years to really break out, so their concerts are few and far between since they have real lives and families, and 2) one some of their songs, they can…

I got to see Eels last year at the Barbican in London. Mark Everett was quite funny, complaining at the beginning that they never let him anyway near the amazing pipe organ they had in the back, and then spent half the set apologising about playing “bummer songs” and at the end, before the encores, he came down from…

Electric Six, maybe the time that Dick Valentine went on and on about some Spanish government conspiracy that possibly involved cheese and I think resulted in the (at that time) most recent album. Or maybe the time that he came out on stage in a shiny yellow cape that said “SHOWTIME” and then did calisthenics during…